Large IDF forces are concentrated just outside northern Gaza, waiting for the order to attack the Kassam rocket infrastructures in Beit Hanoun. The army attributes no importance to PA General Al-Majaida’s announcement last night to the effect that Arafat ordered him to put a stop to the Kassam rocket firings against Jewish communities in the […]

The demise of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the control it exerted over the media has unleashed an outburst of feelings of freedom reflected in a large number of dailies and weeklies which, for the first time in Iraq’s modern history, are free, uncensored, and often highly imaginative. While some of the dailies are associated with […]

Much has been written lately, both here and abroad, about President George Bush’s sudden metamorphosis into Bill Clinton with regard to his handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Actually, the comparison is unjust to Clinton, who in this at least (if in nothing else) was no hypocrite: While Bush condemns Israel for targeting Hamas leaders even […]

Israel returned the bodies of two Hizbullah terrorists to Lebanon this afternoon. The corpses are those of terrorists killed in the 1980’s in clashes with IDF forces in Lebanon – clashes in which no Israelis were killed. Today’s move is described as a “confidence-building gesture” towards Hizbullah, in anticipation of a successful conclusion to ongoing […]

For the first time since shortly after the Six-Day War – according to Temple Mount Faithful members – large organized groups of religious Jews visited the Temple Mount this morning. Three groups totaling over 100 people, all of whom immersed in a mikveh (ritual bath) prior to the visit, entered the Temple Mount compound, and […]

The Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir in Tel Aviv had by Thursday morning identified 19 of the 20 fatalities in Tuesday night’s suicide bombing on a bus in the heart of an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem. The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv said Wednesday night that five of the dead were American citizens. […]

The August 9, 2003 edition of the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi featured an interview with Dr. Nabil Hilmi, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Al-Zaqaziq who, together with a group of Egyptian expatriates in Switzerland, is preparing an enormous lawsuit against “all the Jews of the world.” The following are excerpts […]

Following yesterday’s assassination of senior Hamas official Ismail Abu Shanab, we can expect an escalation in military activity, with Israel and Hamas trading blows. And the person with the most influence over how long this period lasts is not Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, but Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat – who on Wednesday, even […]

No one was hurt in any of these attacks, but two homes in Sderot and Katif were directly hit. In addition, Arabs fired more than once against IDF soldiers in Gaza, a bomb was discovered and neutralized in Shechem, and at least two cars were stoned in the Shomron. For at least the fourth time […]